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Child safety org launches AI model trained on real child sex abuse images (arstechnica.com)

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Today, a prominent child safety organization, Thorn, in partnership with a leading cloud-based AI solutions provider, Hive, announced the release of an AI model designed to flag unknown CSAM at upload. It's the earliest AI technology striving to expose unreported CSAM at scale.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If everyone has access to the model it becomes much easier to find obfuscation methods and validate them. It becomes an uphill battle. It's unfortunate but it's an inherent limitation of most safeguards.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

You're probably right. I'm not sure if it's a good idea to walk close to the edge with things like this, though. Every update to the detection model could change things and get them in jail.... So I certainly wouldn't play a cat and mouse game with something that has several years of jailtime attached... But then I don't really know the thought process of the average pedo. And AI image detection comes with problems anyways. In the article they say it detected 6 million pictures already. While keeping quiet about the rate of false positives. We know people have gotten in serious trouble for (false) claims. And I also wouldn't want to be the Fediverse admin who has to go through thousands of flagged pictures and look at them and decide which is which. With consequences attached... Maybe a database of hashes would be the only option. That doesn't detect new pictures, but at the same time it comes without flase positives and you can't draw conclusions from hash values.